Recently, I learned that the term “boycott” actually originated with Irish tenants who protested their landlord, Captain Charles Boycott, by shunning him economically until he lowered the rent. Spoiler alert: he didn’t.
It did, however, show us two things: boycotting can work, and landlords are, more often than not, a scourge on society. Some stories really do show evidence on why so many people dislike their landlords. This time, it was an intrusive and entitled landlady who came up with one of the most bogus excuses yet to complain: bird feeders.
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